Francesco De Gennaro > Hogan Lovells International LLP > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile
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Francesco De Gennaro
Work Department
Corporate & Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Francesco De Gennaro, head of the Italian restructuring and special situations practice, is a key player of the restructuring arena in Italy.
With more than 20 years of experience, he focuses his practice on restructuring and special opportunities investments, ranging from transactional assistance to lenders and investors, such as special opportunities funds and hedge funds on financial and corporate restructurings, to distressed M&A and assets acquisitions, distressed real estate projects, and debt trading.
Moreover, Francesco represents clients in bankruptcy-related litigation and protection of creditors’ rights. In recent years, Francesco has significantly developed a substantial experience in the field of financial restructuring, assisting main operators and institutions in the field.
Francesco regularly receives recognition from prominent legal directories as a notable practitioner in the area, including Chambers & Partners, and clients praised him for his ”very strong commercial awareness and extremely sophisticated technical skills”.
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Restructuring and insolvency
(Hall of Fame)The ‘collaborative team’ at Hogan Lovells International LLP supports domestic and foreign clients, from distressed companies to investment funds to banks and financial institutions, with special strength in restructuring proceedings and corporate reorganisation. It has particular experience in negotiated crisis settlements. The team also handles disputes relating to insolvency, including claw-back actions and creditor arrangements. Mauro Saccani, the firm’s practice head, focuses on leveraged finance, debt capital markets, restructurings and reorganisations. Francesco De Gennaro
joined the firm from DLA Piper in January 2025.
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- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Capital markets: Debt
- Compliance
- Dispute resolution
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Investment funds
- Private equity
- Restructuring and insolvency
- EU and competition law
- Industry focus: Energy
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- Employment
- Capital markets: Equity